Climate and nature

By 2030, we are committed to reducing emissions from our own operations by 100% and emissions across our value chain by 25%, compared with a 2020 baseline.

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Holiday cottage with VELUX roof windows and garden seating area.

Reducing emissions from our operations

To guide our work on climate and nature, we have established emissions reduction targets for our own operations and our entire value chain that are aligned with climate science and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). These targets sit at the core of our sustainability strategy and guide our actions across our business.

VELUX has cut our CO2 emissions (Scope 1 & 2) by 60% since 2020 and we are continuing to decarbonize our own operations.

We are shifting to renewable energy sources where possible, sourcing and investing in additional renewable power generation, and focusing on energy efficiency across all sites. In 2022, we signed two Renewable Virtual Power Purchase Agreements and commissioned two new solar parks in southern Spain. Now operational, we have secured more than 100% of the VELUX Group’s European electricity needs.

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Decarbonising our products

We are continually working towards reducing the embodied carbon footprint of our products. This includes the carbon emissions associated with raw materials, transport to VELUX and manufacturing. Our procurement and product development teams are focused on sourcing low carbon and high recycled content materials wherever possible. Through partnerships and collaborations with suppliers, including ArcelorMittal, Hydro and Novelis, we are working to reduce carbon emissions from the steel and aluminium used in our products. At the same time, we are designing new products to optimise material use.

From roof windows to communities of the future

As part of an industry that accounts for a third of the global CO2 emissions, we are taking responsibility for finding ways to build more sustainably. The Build for Life project and Living Places concept shows how rethinking buildings can help solve some of the global climate and health challenges we currently face.

Safeguarding biodiversity

Biodiversity is essential for the processes that support all life on earth. We rely on nature for our raw materials. We aim to support biodiversity through efforts on three levels. Although our own operations have a limited impact on biodiversity at a global scale, we will work to get our own house in order while asking the same of others. Our greatest impacts and dependencies on nature are in our supply chain. We will assess these impacts and take the first steps to reduce negative impacts on biodiversity and to protect and restore nature. We have started to scope the work to support biodiversity at our own sites and in our supply chain. We also work to improve biodiversity beyond our value chain through our partnership with WWF.

Read about our partnership